Check Out The Scrapbook Update Staff’s Personal Picks From CHA

We are busy compiling our Scrapbook Update CHA Summer 2011 Top Ten Hot Picks list of what we think are going to be the big products to hit the papercrafting market from CHA this time around! But in the meantime, we thought you might want to look at our staff’s personal picks of what we can’t wait to play with for our scrapbooking when it makes its way to store shelves.

Remember May’s article on “Making Useful Buys“? These lists are the result of each of us applying the principals from that article to our own personal scrapbooking!

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About Nancy Nally

Nancy Nally is the owner of Nally Studios LLC., and the Publisher & Editor of ScrapbookUpdate.com and CraftCritique.com.
Nancy also served as the “Modern Business” columnist for Northridge Publishing’s Creative Retailer magazine for several years, before becoming the magazine’s editor from 2013 until its closure in 2014. Her writing has also appeared in CLN Online and CHA's Craft Industry Today.
In addition to writing, Nancy is also an experienced speaker and presenter, having given business seminars at many recent Craft & Hobby Association trade shows. From 2011 until 2012, she was the founding co-host of the Paperclipping Roundtable podcast, and she can also be seen on five episodes from the second and third seasons of the PBS television series Scrapbook Soup.
Nancy also does freelance public relations work and consulting for private companies about the scrapbook industry’s trends and business climate.

5 Responses to Check Out The Scrapbook Update Staff’s Personal Picks From CHA

Hi Nancy,
Just a quick thank you to you & May & Melissa. Great coverage of CHA, made me wish I was there with you all. Mostly thank you for Scrapbook Update, I always enjoy reading the latest news & information about the industry, who bought who, who is starting something new, etc…

I will tolerate a lot of things said about me because of my job but one thing that I absolutely WILL NOT tolerate is an accusation of bias in my work because of the professional association on the part of a staff member. We all work very hard at Scrapbook Update to keep a high level of professionalism about our work and provide fair, balanced coverage to the industry.

Authentique was newsworthy at this show. PERIOD. We’d already written two articles about the events surrounding the launch of the company before CHA – A huge industry name had left her own signature line with another major industry company to take a role in the start-up of Authentique, and that relationship then ended in a very newsworthy way. That alone made Authentique’s CHA debut one that absolutely had to be covered. The products also debuted in wide distribution before CHA, including at Archiver’s, pretty much guaranteeing that this “start-up” was a hit before the show even opened. I would have been remiss in my role as Editor of Scrapbook Update if we had not covered them. End of discussion.

May wasn’t even present at the show when the coverage was being organized and executed by Melissa and me. And May’s working for them was irrelevant – I had known since the moment that Margie had announced she was leaving Advantus that I was going to have to cover the debut of whatever new thing she was involved in. It’s called NEWS. In fact, if we hadn’t covered Authentique, we’d pretty much have been the only media covering the show that didn’t cover them.

Also, Authentique is actually not the only new exhibitor that Scrapbook Upate has covered and will cover from this show. Just like with the rest of the exhibitors, we can’t cover them all. But we also covered Basically Bare in both our booth round-up series and in our Hot Picks article, and there are pieces still awaiting publication that cover two more new exhibitors.

Accusations of bias aren’t things you should throw around lightly against professional media. This isn’t a game….this is people’s livelihood you are talking about and professional reputations are important.